| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
|---|
| A Decaying Oikos: A Unified Ecological Tradition In Faulkner And McCarthy |
2017 |
1042 |
This essay adopts an ecocritical lens to explore the major similarities in ecology in the works of William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. Much of the scholarship involving both of these authors either compares them in regard to their philosophical str... |
| Environmental Urgency: Apocalyptic Undercurrents In Appalachian Literature, Including All Places Thou: An Experimental Novella |
2018 |
1501 |
Apocalyptic imagery and rhetoric appears across a variety of Appalachian literature and literature with Appalachian settings; however, comparatively little scholarly attention has been dedicated to exploring this trend, despite its provocative ecolog... |
| “The Animal, Whatever It Was”: Dogs, Multi-Species Subjectivity, And The Signifier Guide In Go Down, Moses, And The Call Of The Wild |
2018 |
918 |
Whom or what do we write about when we write about dogs? This thesis attempts to answer this question in part by analyzing the ways in which dogs have been reductively represented in literature, particularly in wilderness narratives that tend to mist... |
| “The Animal, Whatever It Was”: Dogs, Multi-Species Subjectivity, And The Signifier Guide In Go Down, Moses, And The Call Of The Wild |
2018 |
918 |
Whom or what do we write about when we write about dogs? This thesis attempts to answer this question in part by analyzing the ways in which dogs have been reductively represented in literature, particularly in wilderness narratives that tend to mist... |
| Culture And Catastrophe: An Ecocritical Reading Of Southern Appalachian Literature |
2023 |
362 |
This thesis focuses on Gurney Norman's Divine Right's Trip (1972), Ron Rash's One Foot in Eden (2002), and Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006) using an ecocritical reading to highlight the intersections between the environment and culture of Southern A... |
| Kill The Messenger: Fiction On Opportunity And Privilege |
2018 |
682 |
Kill the Messenger is a historical fiction novella comparing the lives of two men, following them from the 1940s to the 1980s. The story follows James Adams, a closeted bisexual man from Boston, Massachusetts, as he avoids active participation in Wor... |
| “A Great Stained Altarstone”: The Environmental Curse And Ecological Violence In Cormac McCarthy’s Border Fiction |
2019 |
683 |
This thesis examines the violence in Cormac McCarthy’s border fiction in environmental terms. Primarily, it looks to Blood Meridian (1985) and the Border Trilogy—which consists of the novels All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Citi... |
| Life Like Ours: An Ecocritical And Animal Studies Examination Of John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row |
2020 |
1056 |
I explore the extent to which the work of John Steinbeck can be considered as contributing to a body of environmental literature, in particular in his short novel Cannery Row (1945). My initial chapter investigates Steinbeck’s source material in writ... |